Episode 1355

Aired: Friday September 3, 1971

Humbert Allen Astredo's voiceover: "It is a day of hidden terrors for those who live at the great house at Collinwood. The long lost secrets of the past are sought by a clever and dangerous enemy of the Collins family. He has caused Quentin Collins to revert to his true age of more than a hundred years, and has placed the woman he loves, a woman lost in time, under his power in order to discover her secrets. Unless he is stopped somehow, he may discover the key to destroy all those who stand in his way...."

After a replay of Thursday's close and the titles, Daphne begins to walk and leave her room as Nicholas follows. "Yes....show me the laboratory, Daphne. Walk to the laboratory..." he says. They begin to move through the hallway when Nicholas suddenly gets startled and steps behind a door. As Daphne continues to walk in a trance, Harrison comes down the hall and sees her. "Daphne!" he says. "You fainted a moment ago. Are you all right?" She looks at him dreamily and answers "Yes....I am fine. I must go now...." and slowly walks away. He looks confused for a moment and then starts to follow her. "Are you sure you're all right? You seem to be acting strangely," he says. She stops a moment and repeats "Strangely? No....I am fine. I am fine now. I must go." Harrison says "Where must you go?" Daphne answers "To find Quentin. I must find my Quentin....my Quentin...." She walks away, leaving Harrison wondering. Meanwhile, the there is a banging on the doors of the old house, and without waiting for an answer, old Quentin pushes open the doors and staggers into the living room. He wails for Barnabas a couple of times, and then calls for Angelique before collapsing into a chair, breathing heavily. Angelique comes down the stairs asking who it is, and then gasps when she sees the nearly rotting old man sitting before her. "Angelique......" he says weakly. "Help.....me......" Angelique studies him a moment, and then realizes, saying "Quentin! Oh my God!" Old Quentin continues to gasp for air.

Angelique rushes to old Quentin's side and asks him what happened. All he can gasp is "Nicholas....Blair.....portrait......help...." Angelique tells him not to talk, and that "I understand. Nicholas did something to your portrait. But why? You are no threat to him." Quentin answers "Daphne....time...he wants to know how..." Angelique remembers Nicholas' plans and the information he wanted. She says "Nicholas wants to know the secret of your ancestor's staircase. I don't know what for, but he must never learn the secret of that room! I have a small amount of my power back now, Quentin. But I don't know if I can help you...I don't know if I have the power to change your portrait back!" Old Quentin looks at her sadly and begs "You...must try...somehow." Angelique says she will do whatever she can. "I suppose anyone who Nicholas suspects of having power over time could be in danger...that would mean Harrison or even Victoria Winters." Old Quentin adds "And Barnabas..." Angelique smiles and says she can protect Barnabas and then adds "And I will do everything I can to save you. I must discover where Nicholas has hidden that portrait. I have to touch it to change it back." Old Quentin smiles a little and says "Thank you....thank you....." Angelique tells Quentin "I will need a mirror from upstairs, and I will need you to touch the mirror as I speak. Can you do that?" Old Quentin nods. "And we must not tell Barnabas about the powers I shall use. He is afraid they will consume me." Quentin manages to say "I think he'd understand." Angelique says "Perhaps. But I'd rather not take any chances." Old Quentin manages a knowing look now that he's caught his breath. "You don't....have to worry about Vicky......." Angelique says "What do you mean?" Old Quentin answers "You can't....play coy with me. You were worried.....about Vicky and Barnabas.....from their past. Vicky.....is Elizabeth's daughter." Quentin sighs, and Angelique can't believe her ears. "Elizabeth's daughter? Vicky? How?" Quentin answers "A story too long....for me to tell you now. But it is....true." Angelique beams, and says "Quentin, you have made me so happy with that news, you don't know how happy! I'll get the mirror, quickly!" She runs out of the room as old Quentin smiles, continuing to catch his breath.

Harrison comes down the stairs, and runs into Mrs. Johnson. He asks her if she's seen Daphne, and Mrs. Johnson says she hasn't, but "you never know where anyone is around this house half the time, Mr. Harrison!" Harrison thanks her, and then walks into the drawing room and pours himself a brandy. "Where could she be...she couldn't find Quentin a moment ago, yet now she looks for him...." He takes a drink and begins to pace. "My Quentin.... what did she mean by 'My Quentin?' I've never heard her call him that before...." Suddenly, Harrison has a revelation. "Unless....she's remembering her past....THAT Quentin! That's where she's going!" He puts down his drink in a hurry and leaves the room. Meanwhile, in 1840s Quentin's lab, Nicholas is following Daphne down the stairs and looking around. "Is this the laboratory?" he asks her. She nods. "Show me how Quentin moved through time," Nicholas adds. Daphne looks confused for a moment, then says "He didn't. He only knew how it could be done." Nicholas, frustrated, says "Then show me how it could be done." Daphne starts to look through the dusty old desk opposite the stairs as Nicholas watches. Suddenly, we hear the creaky sound of a door opening as Nicholas is startled. We hear Harrison calling "Daphne! Daphne! Are you down there?" Daphne looks up.

Nicholas steps aside and hides behind an old bookcase as Harrison comes downstairs. "Daphne! What are you doing down here?" Harrison says as he takes Daphne's hand. "I need to find it," she says as Nicholas listens. Harrison looks into her eyes and says "You're in some kind of trance...it's as if you're sleepwalking." He begins to snap his fingers in front of her and tells her to wake up, but she ignores him. He tries patting her face gently, but she does not come out of it. Instead, she notices his jeweled ring and begins to stare at it. As he drops his hand, she grabs his hand and lifts it back up, staring at the ring. "This crystal...." she says. "this crystal is the way...." Harrison gets a little nervous and tries to take his hand away, saying "Please Daphne, we need to go upstairs." But Daphne grabs his ring with both hands, turns towards the area where the staircase used to be and says "Show me my Quentin...." Harrison's eyes open wide and he yells "No! Daphne! Stop!" Nicholas grows more curious and watches as the air around the broken planks begins to swirl. "Show me my Quentin...." Daphne repeats as Harrison struggles to pull his hands away, yelling "Daphne, no! You've got to stop thinking of the past! You must stop!" The swirling air starts to open into a void, with a vortex running along the outside. Nicholas watches from behind the bookcase as Harrison struggles with Daphne as we see inside the vortex the image of the drawing room at Collinwood with Victorian furniture. Nicholas can't believe his eyes as 1840s Quentin comes into view, sitting and reading a newspaper....